In the evening, the weather was a little hot and dry, and it seemed that there would soon be a heavy rain, Qin Dong sent people to find out the terrain in the city and the situation of the city defenders in the afternoon, and asked Gebuus and sent people to reconnoitre, the defenders in the city were the first wing, the fifth wing, and the sixth wing of the 19th Army Corps, a total of 2,500 people, and the closest to the sixth wing was the fifth wing, which was a standing wing, belonging to the heavy infantry phalanx sequence, and the equipment was much better than the sixth wing, But in terms of mobility, it was much worse than the 6th Wing.

The city of Dirmit is not a small city, but an important border town, and it takes half an hour for the army to go from the west of the city where the first wing is stationed to the east of the city where the first wing is stationed, and this can only be done when the news is transmitted in a timely manner, if the news is not transmitted in a timely manner, there may not be reinforcements for an hour when the sixth wing is attacked.

The Fifth Wing is stationed in the middle of the city, and it can support both the west and east of the city, and no matter what happens in the east or west of the city, the Fifth Wing can get the news quickly.

After all the personnel returned, Qin Dong gathered several of his main leaders to study the plan of action, "Alfard, how is the situation of your reconnaissance in the afternoon, and how is the defense situation at the gate of the East City?" ”

Alfald said: "My lord, we found that the garrison of the east city gate is only thirty people, divided into three groups to take turns to guard, which is much less than the west city gate, and the weapons and equipment are also very poor, and the subordinates are sure that they will kill them all with one charge!" ”

Qin Dong nodded: "Don't be careless, after all, whether you can take the city gate or not is related to whether we can get out of the city in time." If you are trapped in the city, you will die! ”

"Understood, sir!"

Qin Dong said again: "After Gebuus bought the soldiers of the Sixth Wing's station, we learned that the number of people left in the Sixth Wing was only one hundred and ten. That is to say, Pedro took 500 men, more than 60 cavalry were all taken away, and the remaining 110 were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and in the afternoon, after thinking about it, I still thought that it was a great risk for both sides to save at the same time, and if either side did not succeed within the scheduled time, it might fall short, so I decided to let you do it at the gate of the east city first, and the troops you could use were a total of 130 people. These people include our horsemen and men, as well as more than fifty of Gebuus's guards, and I want you to kill the soldiers at the eastern gate as soon as possible. In this way, the more than 100 defenders of the 6th Wing garrison will soon get the news and come to reinforcements, which is the first step, to seize the city gates. Attract enemy troops.

Step 2. You have to hold the gates of the city, and with enough strength in your hands to fight against a hundred men from the garrison of the Sixth Wing, while I will take a hundred cavalry archers into the empty garrison of the Sixth Wing to fetch horses, and there may still be a small number of defenders in the garrison of the Sixth Wing, but this is not a worry, we will soon be able to regain the horses, and a hundred archers with horses will have enough combat effectiveness, and then we will flank the remnants of the Sixth Wing.

While doing both of these steps. We cannot ignore the fifth wing, and the first wing does not have to care. The distance is too far, even if they know that the East City Gate has an accident, it will be too late to send reinforcements, and the remaining troops of the Sixth Wing are likely to send personnel to the Fifth Wing station to seek support after learning that the East City Gate has been raided, so we have to ambush a small team on the main street leading to the Fifth Wing, and as long as we see a soldier going to the Fifth Wing to report the news, they will be killed immediately! After the remnants of the Sixth Wing were killed, all the personnel assembled at the gate of the east city, subject to the sound of the horn, as long as the horn sounded, all the personnel immediately gave up everything and went to the gate of the east city, and we went out of the city together to pursue Pedro in the east."

After listening to Qin Dong's plan, Afar and several other ten-captain leaders all nodded in approval, and Afalde took the lead and said: "Your Excellency's plan is thorough, your subordinates and others are not in time, please give your lordship!" ”

"Good!" Qin Dong began to arrange: "You pick out ten people, among them there must be people with good archery skills, these ten people form a team to go to the east-west main street after dark to ambush, as long as there is a messenger riding a fast horse to gallop in the direction of the fifth wing's station, immediately kill!" In addition, you personally led one hundred and twenty men to attack the East Gate on time in the middle of the night, and Peteus and Gebuus were also with you, but don't let them participate in the battle, everyone else followed me to the Sixth Wing to get their horses, and then we flanked the remaining personnel of the Sixth Wing, do you all know it? ”

Alfald and several of the Centurions saluted together and said in unison, "My lord, we all know this! ”

Qin Dong got up and said, "Okay, eat dinner now, after dinner, those who are okay continue to rest and sleep, and act on time in the middle of the night!" ”

"Yes, my lord!"

During dinner, General Qin Dong planned to talk to Pethius and Gebuus, and finally said: "Uncle, you go to the East City Gate with Alfhard, but you don't go with them, you hide aside when they attack the city gate, and you don't come out to join us until I lead people to appear and kill the remaining personnel of the Sixth Wing!" ”

Pethius nodded and said, "That's fine, we two fat men don't have the strength to kill, or don't make trouble for you, when will it start?" ”

"Late at night and early in the morning, start on time!"

After dinner, except for the necessary guard posts, everyone went to bed, and in the middle of the night there was a battle, and they had to ride horses overnight to pursue the five hundred men led by Pedro, and they might have to chase for several days and nights before they could catch up, and after catching up, they would have to fight a battle to get back the goods, and by the way, they had to rob the tax and silver paid by the city of Dirmit this quarter, and only by resting well and recuperating enough could they cope with the next series of military operations.

Castle Lord's Mansion.

Archon Holt sat at the table and took a sip of beer, this beer was so delicious, he had never drunk it, and he was not very accustomed to the taste of this beer when his brother-in-law brought it to him late the night before yesterday, but after drinking it twice in a row, he felt that it tasted good, especially the bubbles that bubbled when he poured the wine, it was very refreshing to drink, and his whole body was cool after burping, and it was a very cool drink. It's a pity that his brother-in-law Pedro only sent him two barrels.

After dinner, Holt got up and twisted his fat body and sat down on the soft chair next to him, took the towel handed by the maid and wiped his face and hands. casually asked, "What has that cunning merchant of Gebuus been doing for the past two days?" ”

A man who looked like a housekeeper hurriedly bent over and lowered his head and said: "My lord, the villain has been sending people to follow him, Gebuus has been asking for news everywhere in the past two days, and few people have paid attention to him, but this morning he went to the Sixth Wing station, and he seems to smell something fishy!" ”

"Hmm!" Holt lay back in his chair and said, "Don't be careless, money is important. But we aristocrats should still put honor first, and nobles without glory and honor are degenerate and will be spurned by other nobles. In the future, it will be difficult to mix in high society! The reason why Lord Ben connived at Pedro to do such a thing is because sooner or later we will have to return to Constantinople, which is a border fortress after all, although the sky is high and the emperor is far away. The Huns could knock at any time. The west is the territory of the Huns, during this time the Huns came to the news that the Huns fought very badly, although the Huns fought very well in our country, but relatively speaking, due to internal friction, the Huns ruled that the army in the border areas weakened, and these Xiongnu troops who lived on the border all the year round once they lost the constraints of the royal court, they would definitely go south or east to fight our autumn wind, and the Huns were not good at stubble. It's not safe to stay here, so I'm allowing Pedro to do this to raise some money. Then use this money to dredge it up, and see if you can be transferred to another place to be a city lord, even if it is a small place, as long as there is no threat from the Huns! ”

The housekeeper bent down and said, "The adults are wise, but the villains are not!" ”

Holt thought for a while and said: "It seems that this Gebuus is not dead yet, he is still trying to find that batch of goods, and the more than two hundred horses placed in the garrison of the Sixth Wing will be discovered by him sooner or later, so let's take someone to the garrison of the Sixth Wing in the middle of the night tonight to move the horses outside the city, and send someone to Constantinople early tomorrow morning to sell them, so as not to delay the time to our detriment!" ”

The butler agreed, "Yes, sir!" Those are all high-quality war horses, and they will definitely be able to be bought for a high price, and I don't know where that guy Gebuus got so many good horses, but we can't use them, it's a pity."

At around 0:00 in the morning, it suddenly rained heavily, Qin Dong turned over and sat up from the bed, got dressed and equipped with weapons, and walked out of the door, Alphard and the two of them were waiting outside the door, "My lord, the team to intercept the messenger is ready!" ”

Qin Dong nodded and said, "Okay, let them go first!" ”

"Understood!"

After the order was given, the group responsible for intercepting the messengers disappeared into the rainy night with their weapons in hand, and they were to go to the main street from east to west to set up an ambush, killing the messengers on horseback if they saw them passing by, so that news could not reach the 5th Wing station.

The rain brings great inconvenience to the actions of Qin Dong and others, it is easy to catch the wind chill in the rain for a long time, the wind chill disease is definitely a serious illness in this era, and there will be life worries if it is not good, people in good health can still survive, and people in poor health are likely to die, in the east of this era, there are Chinese medicine that can prescribe some herbal prescriptions for treatment, and in the West there is no way to treat wind and cold, the only thing that can be done is surgery, and people who have wind cold can survive if they have a big life, Those who are unlucky can only end up in a dead end.

Due to the sweltering heat in the evening, Qin Dong had already expected that there might be heavy rain, so he sent people to buy more than 200 sets of robes from all over the city, this primitive rain gear could prevent the rain from falling on his body to a limited extent.

Not long after the group that intercepted the messenger left, Qin Dong and Alfald each led a team of men and horses to the headquarters of the Sixth Wing and the gate of Dongcheng respectively, and the carriage and horse shop was empty.

It was the middle of the night, and it was raining heavily, there were no pedestrians on the streets, and those who went to bed early had already entered their dreams, and the sound of the brigade walking on the street was covered by the huge sound of the heavy rain falling to the ground, although the heavy rain brought inconvenience to the movement of Qin Dong and others, it also brought convenience.

After walking for about a quarter of an hour, when Alfald was about to arrive at the east gate with his men, a figure appeared in front of him, and the man quickly ran from the heavy rain, and when he saw Alfard, he reported: "My lord, the guard has just changed at the city gate, and the team of people who have been on duty are all hiding in the cave of the city gate to avoid the rain, and the team that has been laid off quickly ran into the house next to it to sleep!" ”

"Very good, everyone is divided into two teams, a team of eighty people will surround the sleeping soldiers in the house, and none of them will be able to run away, and the other forty people will follow me into the cave of the city gate, kill all the soldiers guarding the city gate, go!" Alfald drew his broadsword and commanded loudly.

Under the order of Alfard, the one hundred and twenty men led by him were divided into two teams, and he himself led forty men to rush to the city gate with a loud shout in a running posture, while waving his sword, making a great noise, and the ten soldiers who were hiding in the cave of the city gate to hide from the rain were frightened by the large group of men and horses who suddenly rushed over, but soon someone reacted and shouted: "There is an enemy, an enemy attack!" All of you take out your weapons and guard the gates, and guard the gates for me! ”

The loud shouts of killing could not be concealed even by the heavy rain, and soon, the twenty soldiers sleeping in the next house were also awakened, but they soon found themselves sadly surrounded in the house and could not get out, and there were people outside who kept shooting arrows into the house from the windows, and the unlucky soldiers were shot to death one by one, and the clever ones hid under the bed and survived.

"Ha, give me death!" Alfald rushed into the city gate cave with both hands in his hand and slashed down with a sword against the leading captain, "clang" A loud sound sounded in the city gate cave, and the soldier squad leader hurriedly held the sword, but was split to the ground by Alfard's huge force, and the people who rushed behind also immediately exchanged hands with the soldiers in the city gate cave.

As soon as the two sides fought, the shouts of killing immediately alarmed the sentries of the remaining troops of the Sixth Wing, which was less than a mile away, and after confirming that someone had raided the east city gate, the sentries guarding at the gate of the station immediately ran towards the station.

"My lord, my lord, it's not good, the east gate has been raided!" The sentry ran to the door of the lieutenant's bedroom and shouted.

The deputy wing commander was quickly woken up, and when he learned the news, he immediately ordered everyone except the gang to pick up their weapons and assemble in the school field, and the soldiers were called up to assemble at this time, and they complained one by one, but the order was an order, and under the organization of the officer, the hundred people who stayed behind quickly gathered, and drove out of the barracks under the leadership of the deputy company commander and headed towards the east city gate.

At this time, the battle of the east city gate has come to an end, the soldiers guarding the city gate were caught off guard by Alfold and others, and there were no effective defensive measures organized at all, after the ten soldiers at the city gate were not killed, the city gate was controlled by the people brought by Afald, he left thirty people to guard the city gate, and he quickly took a few people to the barracks next to him, and personally led people to kill only a dozen soldiers in the barracks, and fully controlled the city gate. (To be continued......)